Two students at Portland Arts and Technology High School got some career help Monday.

Colin Lavigne of Portland and Evan Lunn of Gray both won $1,000 scholarships to Universal Technical Institute for coming in first place at a recent auto skills competition.

They also won a tool box worth $10,000 for PATHS.

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Both teens talked about how the scholarships would assist them.

"In the first year, it teaches you a lot of stuff you can apply to other things, like you can apply some of the stuff you learned to auto body, you can apply some of it to machining, you can apply some of it to welding. You just learn a lot that can be used to other parts of any career," Lunn said.

"It feels good to have it pay off in such a noticeable way. Like with the toolbox, it's a tangible thing that we got from it, and scholarships," Lavigne said.

Lunn also got another scholarship worth $10,000 for coming in first at the Skills USA competition in Bangor earlier this month.